BELEN — In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Through the Flower has announced the next exhibition at the Through the Flower Art Space, “The Holocaust Project and the Legacy of Genocide.”
Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman, logo from the Holocaust Project, 1992, stained glass, fabricated by Michael Caudle, Bob Gomez, Flo Perkins and Donald Woodman. Photo courtesy of Donald Woodman.
Between 1985 and 1993, Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman created a unique body of art combining painting and photography that explored the subject of the Holocaust, a subject that is largely absent from contemporary art outside of the Jewish community.
In 1987-88, Chicago and Woodman traveled to France, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Israel and Japan, a journey that is chronicled in panels that accompany the exhibition.
The result of their travels was that their perspective gradually widened to include genocidal actions directed not only towards Jews and Gypsies but to other peoples like native populations and also other species.
“Moreover, as we continually watch tyrannical leaders kill hundreds of thousands of people out of a quest for power equal to Hitler’s, it is increasingly important to view the Holocaust within the context of its tragic history and also present day injustices,” they say in a press release.
This show is intended to raise important questions about the human capacity for evil and how to work towards change in a world that seems increasingly dark.
A special opening event will be held from 2-4 p.m., Sunday May 7, at Through the Flower Art Space, 107 Becker Ave, Belen.
A film screening of “From Darkness into Light: Creating the Holocaust Project,” will be shown from 2-2:30 p.m., with a presentation from 2:30-4 p.m. by the former director of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Dr. Michael Nutkiewicz, “Through the Lens of Treblinka: The Changing Relevance of the Holocaust.”
Event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Reserve your seat by visiting holdmyticket.com/event/413438.
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